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Matthias Haker is a German photographer and a student of computer science who discovered his passion for photography about 10 years ago. Since then he’s traveling around Europe to capture the beauty of abandoned buildings that is one of his favorite subjects to immortalize. The places that he photographs vary from old swimming pools to cinemas where humans let nature take its way quite a long time ago.

Those places are usually full of fungi, mold, plants, spider webs, snakes and other animals that do not sound so good at first, but the artist finds them special. What also makes Haker's works so unique is that he maintains the secret of the location, saying that the pictures have been made “somewhere in Europe”. Photographer says that a lot of vandalism, theft and other terrible things happen to those buildings, and it’s his way to protect them, which actually makes his pictures even more mysterious. Scroll down to see them for yourself!

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Umm...it says above that the photographer keeps the location of each photo secret to help protect the buildings from theft and vandalism...

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine: building your own loft inside this place, with a big patio on the roof (where the stairs going to)...

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Kate Naughton
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My only question is, why is there a piano in the pool? Just curious about the story on that one.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if I ever have my own country, one of our feats/values will be the appreciation and creation of beautiful architecture

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one looks a bit macabre to me - and does anyone else see the demon in the fireplace?

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I often wonder about the story behind such places. That kind of craftsmanship is obviously not cheap, but apparently, from the state of decay, they ran out of money at some point. Why?

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The wallpaper looks like it is Scheele green, which contained arsenic.

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Carol Harrison
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As if they were there one day, and then gone the next. And yes, that happens.

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Kerri Russ
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lot of abandoned churches in this set. Love these columns and the bas-relief on the altar.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

beautiful photography !! congrats ! I,d love to know who lived in these places and why they are abandoned, that would fascinate me.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The TV set is an interesting anachronism. Maybe someone was really watching TV in bed in 1985?

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, there's a story in this room... I'd love to know what it is!

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The piano looks like a butterfly, that flew into a brown, dreary place to cheer it up!

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if you add a point for each lonely piano but subtract for every church, would you break even?

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